Carol DM
Continuing with my series about Happiness. Always looking for something positive so share for all of us to think about.
Happiness… thousands of candles can be lit from one single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~ Buddha
In case you missed the first four posts in this series you can click below and see them:
1. The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. ~Andre Mauroin
2. I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long term happiness to our lives. ~Dalai Lama
3. Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be. ~Joseph Campbell
4. If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine. ~Morris West
5. The key to being happy is knowing you have the power to choose what to accept and what to let go. ~Dodinsky
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Happiness is a personal choice, do you agree?
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Yes
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No
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“Being happy is a talent that develops through exercise.”Peyo Yavorov
Thank you for those words.
The number 5 is true. We have to let go what has to be let free. Thinking about it…there are things I have to let loose of.
I agree and have lived with this belief for many years now. Letting go is important.
Happiness is a choice indeed. I make the choice to be happy everyday. I love the last quote.
I agree Dawn. Letting go is always the key to happiness.
happiness is a warm puppy.
charlie brown
(well really Charles Shultz)
Happiness is the road and the destination. we must be happy with the path we take.
You are right about the puppy. Thanks for your inspiration.
that comes from that old song (happiness is, )
I wonder if happiness is really a choice that we can make.
We use our mind to make a choice, and so, how would our mind even know what real happiness is?
Perhaps, we more move into happiness’s space automatically, when we clear our mind out of the way, and stop trying too hard to choose happiness with it.
Happiness lands on us when we are ready to allow it to do so, but how do we get ready, by making better choices, I guess, so perhaps choice, after all, does eventually lead us to happiness, but I do not think that we can simply choose to be happy today, and we will instantly be so.
Our conscious choices are usually not that strong, and our years of unconscious programming, sitting in the background of us, will prevent in a way, our conscious choices from happening, if we do not take care of them first.
I think we are all different and each one has to create our own environment that makes us happy.
I agree. And different things make different people happy too, I guess.
These are great quotes, Carol! Thank you so much for sharing happiness with us!
You know I appreciate your support. Glad you are enjoying!
A man is made happy by his own efforts as soon as he learns the necessary elements for happiness: simple pleasures, courage, selflessness, love of work and, above all, a clear conscience. – George Sand
Simple is they key word. Thank you.
And sometimes it is a really hard choice to make. You are amazing with it.
Thank you, I also have struggles but I keep pushing through.